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Ann Syrdal, Who Helped Give Computers a Female Voice, Dies at 74
- toomuchtodo 6y agohttps://www.engineergirl.org/2939/Ann-Syrdal https://www.engineergirl.org/2939/Ann-Syrdal
- moioci 6y agoThis profile says "1945 - 1920." Y2K lives on?
- Cyphase 6y agoI would be interested to know how that happened.
- KineticLensman 6y agoInteresting. Just now I was checking out the paper [0] from Uni of East Anglia on the effects of angiotension inhibitors on COVID-19 survival rates and noticed that it is embargoed until ... 31/12/99. Hmmm. [0] https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/publications/effect-of-reninangiotensinaldosterone-system-inhibitors-in-patients-with-covid19-a-systematic-review-and-metaanalysis-of-28872-patients(c918a250-e796-4d9e-a6e2-6c41fcd04352).html https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/publications/effect-of-reninangi...
- gnulinux 6y agoWasn't there a whole bunch of blog posts in January about how Y2K was deferred 20 years by people using hacks to "fix" Y2K issue. I suppose it was right for this website.
- chillacy 6y agoIt's kind of interesting that she had to fight to build a female TTS at bell labs and now the major TTS systems in America are all female voices. Ironically this has lead to accusations of sexism. https://www.businessinsider.com/google-assistants-voice-meant-be-male-at-first-not-female-2019-9 https://www.businessinsider.com/google-assistants-voice-mean... All that said, TTS quality has really improved in the past 10 years, it always amazes me.